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Series
Swanimote Court Rolls and Files of Windsor Forest
Catalogue reference: C 154
What's it about?
C 154
Largely paper files of presentments made at swanimotes, rather than formal enrolments of court proceedings on parchment.They may owe their survival to the Windsor forest eyre of 1632, although a few items are of later date. In the 1630s, after...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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C 154
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Title (The name of the record)
- Swanimote Court Rolls and Files of Windsor Forest
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Date (When the record was created)
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1548-1639
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Description (What the record is about)
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Largely paper files of presentments made at swanimotes, rather than formal enrolments of court proceedings on parchment.
They may owe their survival to the Windsor forest eyre of 1632, although a few items are of later date. In the 1630s, after the eyre, the rolls become larger and have original summonses of the earl of Holland as chief justice of the forests south of the Trent sewn to them. They seem to bear witness to a more rigorous regular administration of the forest in the period following the eyre.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some records relating to Bagshot bailiwick in Surrey are now in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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21 files and rolls
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Europe and Russia
- Legal
- Forestry
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The records in this series were originally housed in the Wakefield Tower in the Tower of London.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- An inventory of these records was printed in the Fifth Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records (1844). The current practices of the swanimote are described in J Manwood, A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest (3rd ed, 1665).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3712/
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